Synodic month length 29.7 days

Length of current 889 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 1 minute shorter than next lunation 890 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 6 December 2071 Sunday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠102.9°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠102.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠138.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon before perigee

8 days after point of apogee on 27 November 2071 at 16:12 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 9 December 2071 at 10:47 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 374 806 km

Moon after descending node

5 days after its descending node on 1 December 2071 at 07:18 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 December 2071 at 01:42 in ♍ Virgo.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

12 days after previous South standstill on 24 November 2071 at 07:52 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.413°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.456° in the next northern standstill on 8 December 2071 at 10:00 in ♋ Cancer.